By Anna Vojtovičová & Julija Spicina
Nothing lasts forever. Centuries come and go, regimes change, and empires spring up into existence and fall apart. A way we keep things alive is by remembering traditions and origins through culture, through the arts. Vox Umbras - Voice of the Shadows, is a sonification project dedicated to the art that has been lost, to the small and large parts of our human condition that are gone forever. We know about the lost artworks through stories and documentation, but we will never be able to experience them again, until now. We have created a database of historical events when loss of art has occurred, which is accessed by a computer program that sonifies this particular part of our history. The resulting soundscape is not only a tribute to the great masterpieces which are now lost, but also a haunting space for contemplation and reflection.
